Framework agreement for the provision of Dental Lab Services
- Buyer
- University College London Hospitals NHS FT
- Value
- £3,332,250
- Closes
- 4 December 2026
- Where
- London, London
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wants to set up a framework agreement, a pre-approved list of suppliers, for dental laboratory services. The framework runs for an initial 3 years with an estimated value of £3,332,250, and it is split into four lots: fixed prosthodontics (fixed dental replacements), removable prosthodontics (dentures and related appliances), orthodontics (braces and other tooth-moving appliances), and restorative dentistry for patients with head and neck lesions.
What the buyer wants
• Make dental prostheses, orthodontic appliances and related devices for NHS patients, across one or more of the four lots, including implant-retained work, complete and removable dentures, and specialist appliances such as obturators, sleep apnoea devices and surgical templates. • For the restorative lot, support rehabilitation of patients with benign or malignant head and neck conditions, including before, during and after surgery or adjunctive treatment such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy, and provide extra-oral prostheses (nose, eye and ear prostheses) usually retained by dental implants. • Deliver work at existing or increased occlusal vertical dimension (the height of the bite) as specified for each lot.
Lots
- Fixed Prosthodontics
- Removable prosthodontics
- Orthodontics
- Restorative Dentistry
Requirements
What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The notice requires a broad range of specialist dental laboratory work across four lots with an estimated value of £3.3 million over three years, so smaller labs without the capacity or specialist skills for implant-retained, cleft or oncology, or extra-oral prostheses may find it difficult to compete unless they bid for a single lot they can fully cover.
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How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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